First Sighting: 2013 Christmas Tree!?

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I find it hard to believe but a neighbor has a Christmas tree up and lit as I write this. Holy moley.

Maybe it's a North American version of the South Seas "cargo cult" of WWII in which the natives thought if they built a facsimile of an airstrip strange godlike creatures would bring them gifts in great silver birds.

I miss my North Dakota boyhood when I was lucky to get an orange or a new snowshovel for Christmas.
 
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Bat Guano said:
I find it hard to believe but a neighbor has a Christmas tree up and lit as I write this. Holy moley.

Maybe it's a North American version of the South Seas "cargo cult" of WWII in which the natives thought if they built a facsimile of an airstrip strange godlike creatures would bring them gifts in great silver birds.

I miss my North Dakota boyhood when I was lucky to get an orange or a new snowshovel for Christmas.
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I was gonna say *Man, are you easy to shop for.*
BUT - I don't think I could find a show shovel around here - When it snows we just wait a few hours and it's gone.
PM me your address and I'll send you a nice orange though :)

Some stores here abouts have had trees up and Christmas songs playing since BEFORE halloween! - PATHETIC!!

I miss the chrome tree of my childhood. It was beautiful and lasted a long, long time.:cool:
PS - We always had a real tree until the guy down the street's tree burst into flame and burned their house down! Turns out that a dry pine tree will light up like a match.:eek:
 
I haven't seen a Christmas tree up yet, but have seen a couple houses with outside decorations up.

My sweet little wife really loves Christmas and loves decorating the inside of the house for the holidays...especially this year when some of our kids and grandkids are coming out to the farm for Christmas. She goes the "whole nine yards"...three or four trees up throughout the house, gingerbread men hanging on the boughs, a G scale train running around the big tree on the main floor, ad infinitum.

It's all I can do to keep her from starting to decorate now. She's already playing Christmas music during the day. She's rationalizing by saying that Thanksgiving is late this year, so that gives her one less week to have the Christmas decorations up...so she figures she can put them up now and be okay. I don't understand her logic, but apparently it makes perfect sense to her.

I'm subtly trying to get her to put off her Christmas decorating at least until Thanksgiving is over, but we'll see.

On the bright side, though, all of this puts her in the true Christmas spirit. She loves it, so I really can't complain. I don't go in for all the commercializing we see at the stores, but my wife's decorating isn't ostentatious by any means. It's more of the "old-fashioned country Christmas" look. So, maybe I'll just find a good book, go sit in my favorite chair by the wood stove, and let her have her fun.

Here's wishing all of you the Christmas spirit this year...and even though it's a good month early, here's hoping you have a very Merry Christmas.
 
The best I can hope for these days is to make it at least till Thanksgiving without hearing Crosby groaning "White Christmas". It's far too much to hope to get through the whole season without hearing it.

I await with trepidation the awful day that some greedy schmuck uses the song as part of one of those wretched "Christmas In July" promotions advertised on the tube.

No, I'm not a Grinch and I don't hate Christmas per se. I'm mortally sick of that recording, and irritated that "Sleighride", "Winter Wonderland", even "Jingle Bells", songs that really don't have anything at all to do with Christmas, have become inescapable parts of the seasonal music canon.

Hell, maybe I AM a Grinch. But I don't think so. Just increasingly perplexed and bemused in my old age.
 
I haven't seen a Christmas tree yet, but I don't get out much. I have seen some decorations & lights in the neighborhood. I know that in the ritzier part of OKC that the crane trucks are already tooling around. These people go all out, & I wonder if its truly Christmas spirit or are they just trying to outdo each other? As far as music goes, I have never enjoyed Christmas music, even from an early age. The last place I worked would start pumping it through the house system as soon as Thanksgiving was over. Drove me freakin" nuts!:eek::D
 
One of the local grocery stores has a large, fully decorated Christmas
tree next to the registers. I noticed it yesterday while on a quick trip there.
I think it's way early but it's a nice-looking tree.

My brother's birthday is Dec. 17. His party, as a kid, usually consisted, in part, of everybody trooping out to cut down a Christmas tree.
(We could get permits for one from some local companies at the time).

We still stick to that schedule, more or less.
 
The first ones I saw in my neighborhood were about two weeks before Halloween. It's time for me to start listening to the Spanish radio station while in the car. They have the common decency not to play Christmas music until, hey... Christmas.

Yes, I am a scrooge. If it was up to me, Christmas would start on December 24th and end after Mass on Christmas day.

Russ
 
Hillbilly77 said:
Beat ya.
Saw my first Christmas tree about two weeks ago. :rolleyes: :mad:
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Beat ya all . A couple of months ago a co-worker going through a divorce talked me into adopting his "like new, $500 tree that just needed a few lights replaced" ( rather than leave it for his wife.). For the last month, it's been standing in my living room while I wrestle with getting it back into shape. So far , I've replaced 200 individual lights and counting! Every time I walk by the thing, I spot another 2-3 have out!



Who knows, someday we may actually decorate it!
 
Two of the St Louis radio stations started with the Christmas music the instant Halloween ended. I'm already getting sick of it, and we have five weeks to go!

When I'm elected King I shall decree that anyone playing Christmas music before December 15th shall be tossed into the nearest lake, and if it's frozen it's okay to use their head to crack the ice.
 
My son and I walked to the barber yesterday and passed a bank that had a flocked one up. Seemed odd as we were in shorts, tank top and sandles heading into summer.
 
I have no idea how we raised two sons with absolutely no Christmas spirit. The oldest finally gave in and got a fake tree. I'm pretty certain he went tree shopping the week after Christmas and found on out at the curb for the garbage to pick up. He lived alone in his house back then, and he kept it in a hall closet. Usually in early December we'd visit and point out his lack of spirit. Which would prompt him to run to the hallway, open the door and bring out the already decorated tree. Then he'd drag it to his sparsely appointed living room and plug it in.

Probably caused by our always buying a growing tree and cutting it down. When he was young, he loved the excursions. Then when we built this house about 4 years ago we got a "landing" up on the one side of the living room. Seemed like the perfect place for a deciduous fake tree. Just branches with no leaves. It was a department store model, painted gold, with branches for things to hang on. She put her silver ornaments there. High, out of reach by kids, and it looked nice. Of course we still had a 9' cut tree. Then we didn't take it down. So it went for a couple of Christmases until our daughters in law started making fun of it.

So down it came. Sometime this next week maybe I'll go find it and start putting it back up. Yes, we'll play Christmas music for the next month. If someone doesn't like it, TS.
 
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